What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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